FSYNC(2) BSD System Calls Manual FSYNC(2)
NAME
fsync -- synchronise changes to a file
LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
SYNOPSIS
#include <unistd.h>
int
fsync(int fd);
DESCRIPTION
The fsync() system call causes all modified data and attributes of fd to be moved to a permanent storage device. This normally results in
all in-core modified copies of buffers for the associated file to be written to a disk.
The fsync() system call should be used by programs that require a file to be in a known state, for example, in building a simple transaction
facility.
RETURN VALUES
The fsync() function returns the value 0 if successful; otherwise the value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate
the error.
ERRORS
The fsync() fails if:
[EBADF] The fd argument is not a valid descriptor.
[EINVAL] The fd argument refers to a socket, not to a file.
[EIO] An I/O error occurred while reading from or writing to the file system.
SEE ALSO
sync(2), syncer(4), sync(8)
HISTORY
The fsync() system call appeared in 4.2BSD.
BSD
June 4, 1993 BSD